Saturday, September 15, 2007

tim gunn's guide to style

I had a bad feeling about this show from the promos. Everytime I heard Tim Gunn bellow out-- in that pompous and patronizing tone of voice of his--that we were going to have to follow "My Rules!" my gut response was always: "fuck you." Whenever someone tells me that I am going to have to follow their rules (especially in that pissant manner) I immediately want to break every one of their goddamn rules just on principle.

I never believed the hype about this being all that different from any other fashion makeover show. As it turns out, what makes this one different is that it is twice as long and ten times as dull. They turned a guilty pleasure (basically a Cinderella story that dumps the prince and adds in a shopping spree) into a condescending over-serious lecture on self-improvement full of commonplace "rules" and new age platitudes.

Tim is funny on Project Runway because we just get short doses of his professor-manque posturing and pissy little quips. He becomes tiresome very quickly when you have to put up with him for a longer period of time.

I didn't think it was going to be very good but I also didn't expect it to be this bad. The reviews are uneven. Here are two that best sum up how I feel about it. Even Tom and Lorenzo, tow of Tim Gunn's biggest fans, are not impressed:

Jesus Christ, was that a makeover show or a hostage situation? Could this show be any more devoid of lightness and humor of any kind? One word kept repeating itself in our heads last night over and over as we watched this thing: dreary.

Thus, it was disappointing, when watching this new makeover fantasy, to discover a new superciliousness in his tone and a noxious haughtiness in his demeanor. Downer! And it was off-putting that Guide to Style takes a soporific hour to reform the dress sense of one single lass. Drag!

The underwear drawer humiliation ritual on the most recent episode was truly appalling. It is bad enough when Trini and Suzannah do it (on BBC's What Not to Wear) but they are much more bawdy. Plus they are able to convey--and this is essential--a comfort in and an appreciation of women's bodies. Tim "zaftig debacle" Gunn does not possess these particular gifts. Going through a woman's underwear drawer is the last thing he should be tasked with doing. It was an unmitigated horror for everyone.

It isn't enough just to like clothes. You also have to like bodies. Imperfect bodies. I don't mean this sexually. I don't think Tim has it in him to really "get" the beauty in the ordinary, flawed, messy, lives and bodies of real women. You just can't get away from his standoffishness -- at times it is more like squeamishness -- toward these people and the lives they lead. There's just too much of a disconnect. It is all too forced: nothing in this show really fits.

63 comments:

Ah, yes. We wrote about the same show yesterday. I should have come visited this site before I bothered to expend my energy. I was a fan at first, thinking that the show would develop a tongue in chic style. But you are right, Tim's voice (which grates) has a ponderous nasality that simply intones. After only three viewings one is already tired of the formula. I could only write a silly post.

With their experience in designing reality shows, could Bravo's producers not have designed something better? Or are they becoming cynical about their viewers? At the most Tim's show deserves a half hour of our attention; at the least, I'll give it a pass next time.

I've linked to this post, btw, as you state the situation so much better.

Seriously, getting back to the Tim show, I agree about following rules. The idea about fashion is that one develops one's own unique style, whatever that is. I hate that list Tim imposes on women: white shirt, trench coat, black pants, little black dress, etc.

C'mon! What if I don't want a trench coat? And, frankly, a little red dress would stand out in a sea of black.

I love Tim Gunn, and i love his show. If people such as yourself does research about others who criticize his AMAZING SHOW, I have news for you. The people you do say are being tortured, first off has voluntarily put themselves into that situation. You might not know how Television Production works, but they weren't thrown in there. They would have to give their consent, written contract after they were "surprised" to do the show. They were willing to give up that part of themselves for help with fashion that they seemingly needed.

Since they took that route, to have aide from Tim Gunn, they are under his wing. The way Tim Gunn starts out with the essentials, underwear is how he teaches people about fits first... AGAIN, they didn't have to go through with it, the whole episode could have been scrapped!

THEREFORE NOT TORTURE!! So get over it. Why don't you all instead of bashing someone else, find a way to help others like Tim Gunn has. In Every episode, he had made over someone in need, into someone with more confidence about themselves, and how to dress. Therefore, Tim Gunn's guide to Style is a great show!

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